whodunit

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00:54 Oct 12, 2020
English to Czech translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Additional field(s): Cinema, Film, TV, Drama, Poetry & Literature, Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

Example sentence(s):
  • A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. Alyssa Mackay
  • Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? Telegraph
  • While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. WH Smith
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5 +1detektivka
Barbora Dadlikova


  

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detektivka


Definition from own experience or research:
Detektivka je napínavý detektivní/kriminální příběh ve kterém je vrah odhalen až na samém konci.

Example sentence(s):
  • Ragnar Jónasson úspěšně pokračuje v tradici anglické křížovky a jeho „Sněžná slepota“ dokázala, že když se sejdou správní aktéři, dá se rozehrát příběh, za který by se nemusela stydět ani Královna detektivek Agatha Christie. - severskedetektivky.cz  
  • Detektivní román a detektivní povídka, neboli lidově detektivka, je jeden z nejpopulárnějších žánrů zábavné literatury. - fantasy-maka.blogspot.com  
  • Detektivka nebo detektivní fikce, která zahrnuje detektivní román, novelu a povídku, je jedním z nejoblíbenějších žánrů zábavné literatury. - wikipedia  
Barbora Dadlikova
Czech Republic
Local time: 11:46
Native speaker of: Czech

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